Shadows of a Princess

Scrolling through the Goodreads reviews, you'll find reader after reader proclaiming the Princess self-absorbed and monstrous, based on this book. Read editorial reviews (and the opinion of Prince William), you'll see this book described as a hatchet job. I found it to be neither. Rather, it's a wart......more

This book may have been tolerable if not for the horrible writing style. I don't know how this man organized the princess' schedule when he can't even organize his thoughts into a consistent story. He jumps from event to event with no consistency or smooth transition. it got so bad that I just gave......more

Boring. Too many unnecessary details. We get it. You were at her beck and call. She was moody and sometimes spiteful. You traveled the world in style and comfort yet complained you never got a holiday. Whine, whine, whine. You had a busy job. She could be difficult. What about all the handwritten wo......more

Finished this incredibly sad book about a woman who never really got to grow up, may (or may not) have been suffering from a mental illness, and wanted something so badly but could not identify what "it" was or how to achieve it. The victim-hood turned spiteful/vindictive streak was her undoing whic......more

A warts and all insight into the life of a Private Secretary to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. A worthy account of the ups and considerable downs to life in the employ of a fragile, emotionally damaged young woman who was, in essence, in an "arranged" marriage to a future King.......more